Dearest Chart-lovers!
Submit your best quotations hiding away in those digital treasure troves into the I Love Charts Ask Box for a chance to have them speed illustrated and uploaded to the blog before the day is out! I’ll pick two or three that lend themselves well to being charted (but will try extra hard to adapt any quotes I just adore) and get my speedy little pen to work – hopefully before 9pm EST.
Hit me with ‘em!
Goooooooood morning chart-enthusiasts!
Welcome to a full day of chart-and-quote-related postings and reflections. I’m Maggie Appleton (I go by the pseudonym ”mappleton”) and I’ll be hosting I Love Charts here for the day. You can find a lot more of me and my illustrative chartings on my blog mappleton.co and my twitter @mappletons.
Charts have been a deep and lasting love of mine ever since I first stumbled across the work of legends such as David McCandless and began spending more time on Visua.ly than I did sleeping. While trying my hand at infographics a few times, keeping track of numbers and proportions in my art drove me up the wall. Eventually I compromised by tossing out accuracy, embracing oddity, and doing whatever the hell I wanted with my charts… this is the internet after all!
For the past few months I’ve been on a kick of doing “Illuminating Quotes, Visualised,” combining my passion for chart-like visualisation and great quotations – a project theme that has seemingly taken on a life of its own.
To give you a better idea of the hours ahead, lets start ourselves out with some old favourites:
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Wake up with Neil DeGrasse Tyson and coffee!
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Simply perfecting my acute observation skills…
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I often try to solve the world problem of too few charts in order to avoid boredom.
Brunch for Math Nerds
Ashley and I whipped up some napkin graphs over breakfast!
Need a refresher on how we got here? Check out these handy charts we created in 2009. From the financial sector’s death grip on our political system to better things we could have done with that bailout money (health care, mortgages, poverty), it’s all there. Can someone send this along to a certain Congressman from Virginia?
#Occupy
Chart of the Day: The amount that students owe quintupled between 2000 and 2011. For more, check out our MoJo College Guide.
One of the main tenets of capitalism is that it allegedly creates competition, giving consumers higher quality and lower costs. But when competition drops from 37 national banks to 4, that “consumer wins out in the end” theory goes right out the window.
But don’t even think of regulating the banks!
Mitt Romney’s chart of the “Obama Recession” actually starts in 2007. MoJo’s Adam Serwer (!!) notes:
With employment still hovering around nine percent, it’s not like Romney needs to lie in order to go after Obama’s record on the economy. Recent polls have shown nothing but grim news for the president on this front. Why be so conspicuously dishonest about it?
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